The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music

Volume 26 (2020) No. 1

Thirty Years of War: Henrich Schütz and Music in Protestant Germany

Victor Coelho, Guest Co-Editor

Table of Contents

A Note from the Editor, Lois Rosow

Articles

• Joshua Rifkin: Glimpses of War: Schütz, the Dresden Court Chapel, and Geschichte von unten
• Bettina Varwig: Music in the Thirty Years War: Towards an Emotional History of Listening
• Derek Stauff: Music and the Leipzig Convention (1631)
• Keith Polk: Schütz in Pre-War Dresden: Performers and Their Performance Traditions, 1615–1630
• Arne Spohr: From “Seiten-Kunst” to “Fürsten Gunst”: The Careers of the Anglo-German Musicians William, Christian, and Steffen Brade in the Context of the Thirty Years War
• Joanna Carter Hunt: A Tale of Two Cantors: Heinrich Grimm (1592–1637) and Thomas Selle (1599–1663) during the Thirty Years War
• Hannah Spracklan-Holl: Protestantism, Patriotism, and the Idea of Germanness in a Seventeenth-Century Singspiel: Neu erfundenes FreudenSpiel genandt Friedens Sieg (1642)
• Torbjørn Skinnemoen Ottersen: Echoes of Heaven, Echoes of Schütz, and Echoes of the Thirty Years War? Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger and his Dresdner Requiem

Book Reviews

• Ritual Design for the Ballet Stage: Revisiting the Turkish Ceremony in “Le bourgeois gentilhomme” (1670). Edited by Hanna Walsdorf. Cadences—Schriften zur Tanz- und Musikgeschichte 1. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2019. Reviewed by Geoffrey Burgess.
• The Sonatas of Henry Purcell: Rhetoric and Reversal. By Alon Schab. Eastman Studies in Music 146. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2018. Reviewed by John Cunningham.
• Curious & Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy. By Rebecca Cypess. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Reviewed by Frederick Hammond.
• Music at the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr. By Deborah Kauffman. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Reviewed by John Hajdu Heyer.
• The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris. By Nicholas Hammond. Perspectives on Sensory History. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2019. Reviewed by John Romey.
• The Golden Age of Flemish Harpsichord Making: A Study of the MIM’s Ruckers Instruments. Edited by Pascale Vandervellen. Brussels: Musical Instruments Museum, 2017. Reviewed by Saraswathi Shukla.
• Dietrich Buxtehudes geistliche Vokalwerke: Texte, Formen, Gattungen. By Olga Gero. Studia musicologica Upsaliensia, nova series 26. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2016. Reviewed by Paul Walker.

Recording Reviews

• Corbetta: La guitarre royalle. Izhar Elias, Baroque guitar. Brilliant Classics, 2018. Reviewed by Michael A. Bane.
• Juan de Navas. Aves, flores y estrellas: Tonos y arias. Música ficta. Lindoro, 2017. Juan de Navas. Alado cisne de nieve: Art Songs. Música ficta. Et’cetera, 2018. Reviewed by Drew Edward Davies.